The Medal of Honour Ali (a.
The Medal of Honour Ali (a.s), the chief of believers, has described a very worthy fact about the value of marriage: لَمْ يَكُن أحَدٌ مِن أصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللهِ صَلّى اللهُ عَليهِ وَآلهِ يَتَزَوَّجُ إلاّ قَالَ رَسُولِ اللهِ صَلّى اللهُ عَلَيه وَآلهِ: “كمل دينه.” “There were none of the friends of the Prophet (S) who would marry but the Prophet (S) would say his faith (religion) had been completed.”[^7] What a surprise!
Marriage has this much worth and value that the Prophet of Allah (S) decorated the chests of those who married with medals of honor. It is evident from these words of the Prophet (S) that while a person does not marry, his faith lies in danger.
This is because sexual instinct, spiritual pressures, sense of solitude and futility, being devoid of shelter and the lack of a sense of social responsibility, as well as many other harms of remaining unmarried can damage the roots of man’s faith and destabilize it. Marriage and establishing a family and resting beside an excellent, virtuous, lovely, sympathetic and faithful spouse not only…
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